k like the stereotypical model. It is really sad that the media has such the power to influence our opinion on what is beautiful and "normal." Magazines always have articles on how it is not sexy to have an hourglass figure, while having a stick thin body with no meat is in. The media's portrayal of being sexy is a tanned body and a starved adolescent look. Advertisements impose what we must look like in order to be accepted in a world so obsessed with body image and as depressing as it may sound, we buy into it. After seeing all these flawless women portrayed in the media, the female gender commonly takes a path that makes matters worse. Girls are left to think about their self-images continually. Their minds become warped with all these ideas about losing weight to look like the models. It has a negative affect on ones self-esteem because they become obsessed with how they look. Girls start looking at the fat, calories, and carbohydrates in foods so they know how much they will consume, and plan their workout accordingly. Their priority becomes doing all it takes to lose the weight, which sometimes can be fatal because of the ways they want to accomplish the goal of losing weight. Some girls starve themselves and deprive their bodies of nutrients, which brings on anorexia. I was horrified seeing a friend with the disease. I know that I could never be anorexic because I love food so much, but it is so scary knowing that so many girls are faced with this disease. I remember watching a Lifetime movie about a girl who was anorexic. It showed that her body was weakening and her skin turned a vile green. She was depriving herself of nutrients that she needed to survive. In another movie, a girl had bulimia and she would binge eat candy and other sweets and throw it up after. This is terrible for a person's body because it weakens your muscles, ruptures the stomach lining, causes irregular heartbeats, causes kidney damage, ends ...
